Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #137581
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 137581

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote : Re: [Gusty] Printer shared by default (Security)

Patrice, no, there is no relation with that bug. That bug is about sharing printers to Windows clients.

ubuntu4fun, Kees, pitti, in CUPS there are two places for setting printer sharing: Once you turn it on or off globally for your system (and select clients, if you want). Second, each individual printer can be included into or excluded from the system's printer sharing. The system's printer sharing is turned off by default ("Server Settings" in system-config-printer), the switches for inclusion of individual printers are turned on by default ("Policies" tab of each printer's entry in system-config-printer). A warning message at the check box in system-config-printer ("Not published. See server settings") should tell that the printer is not actually shared.

Due to translations we cannot change the text of this warning message for Gutsy, but for Hardy there is no problem doing improvement here. Perhaps one can even gray out this check box if in the "Server Settings" the system's printer sharing is turned off.

Moving bug to system-config-printer ...